F.R.P. Akehurst
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Department of French and Italian |
Statement of Interests
F.R.P. Akehurst, Professor of French, teaches French language and civilization at the undergraduate level, and Reading Old French, the History of French, and French Literature at the graduate level. He also teaches Old Occitan (Old Provençal) language and literature, and introduces notions of Old French law into his courses where possible. His research interests include Medieval French and Occitan language, literature and law, and he has written on the troubadours and published a number of translations of Old French legal texts. A long-range project recently completed is the entering of the text of all the troubadours (2500 or more poems) into a computer data base for issue on a CD-Rom (see below). He is also active in the Center for Medieval Studies. He has directed a number of doctoral dissertations.
Publications
Books
The "Coutumes de Beauvaisis" of Philippe Beaumanoir, translated and with an Introduction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xxxii, 749.
A Handbook of the Troubadours, ed. with Judith M. Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. 502.
The Etablissements de Saint Louis: Thirteenth-Century Law Texts from Tours, Orléans, and Paris. Translated and with an Introduction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. xliv, 177.
Strangers in Medieval Society, ed. with Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
CDROM: COM1 ed. Peter T. Ricketts, with the collaboration of F.R.P. Akehurst et al., Turnhout (Belgium):Brepols, 2001.
Articles
"Abashed and Impotent: Conon de Bethune's 'Si voirement con...' (R.303)." Romanic Review, 74 (1983), 260-270.
"William IX and Unbridled Passion: Did William Have the Pox?" The Spirit of the Court, Acts of the Fourth Triennial Congress, International Courtly Literature Society, ed. Robert Taylor, Toronto, 1985.
"The Auxiliary-verb-plus-infinitive Construction in Old Occitan," TENSO. Bulletin of the Société Guilhem IX 2,1 (Autumn, 1986), 1-20.
"Troubadour, Trouvére." Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982-88, 12: 214-219.
"Murder by Stealth: Traïson in Old French Literature." Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics. ed. Rupert T. Pickens. Medieval Institute Publications. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1993. 459-473.
"The Legal Background of the Troubadours and Trouvéres," in The Cultural Milieu of the Troubadours and Trouvéres, ed. Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Cultural Studies, Musicological Studies 62/1 (Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1994), 16-33.
"Courtly Love as Zero-sum and Non Zero-sum Game." Romance Languages Annual, 6 (1995), 1-5.
"Artful Dodging," Nexus: The Convergence of Language Teaching and Research Using Technology. CALICO Monograph Series v. 4. Durham, N. C.: CALICO, 1997, pp. 78-80.
"The Electronic Troubadours" for the Romance Languages Annual vol.10 (1998), 2 vols., 1:1-4.
With Vivian S. Ramalingam: "A New Trouvère Fragment in The Hague," Music Fragments and Manuscripts in the Low Countries, Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation, 2/1995 [1999], 19-29.
"Good Name, Reputation and Notoriety in French Customary Law," Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe, ed. Thelma Fenster and Daniel Lord Smail. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Six articles for a dictionary: Justinian, Theodora, Bernart de Ventadour, Guillaume Durand, Pope Gregory IX, and Philippe de Beaumanoir. The Rise of the Medieval World 500-1300 ed. Jana K. Schulman. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
"Adultery in Gascony." in “De Sens rassis”: Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens, Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot and Logan E. Whalen. Faux Titre 259. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. Pp. 1-15.
“Aspects of Old Provençal (Old Occitan) Syntax: Relative Clauses in the Costuma d’Agen,” in Etudes de langue et de littérature médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts, ed. Dominique Billy and Ann Buckley. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005. pp. 587-594.